Grade Range: 7-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 45 MinutesDate Posted: 9/21/2010
In this lesson plan, students analyze news sources from the Vietnam War era to describe how POWs and their families were represented in the media, then write letters from the perspective of the relative of a POW that describes the concerns of POW families. This resource was produced to accompany the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Discussions, Museum education
From 1961 to 1973, the North Vietnamese and Vietcong held hundreds of Americans captive. In North...
1960s, POW, military history, Vietnam, armed forces history, prisoner of war, military strategy, 20th, conflict, Armed, torture, domino theory, soldier, military, war, treatment, 1900s, Cold War, wartime, 20th century